As we head into December 2025, both Brenda Lee and Bobby Helms are in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Holiday 100 — for 1958’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and 1957’s “Jingle Bell Rock,” respectively.

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

A decade later, Ella Fitzgerald recorded her own version in 1960, further cementing the song’s place in the popular ...

Every December, a small group of songs returns to dominate charts, playlists, and pop culture. Wham!’s “Last Christmas” has sold around 15.7 million units worldwide. Written by George Michael in his ...

More than 60 years later, Elvis Presley’s 1957 Christmas album is still the best-selling holiday record ever made.

With all those Christmas cookies around, it might be a good idea to get your heart pumping this holiday season. The average American gains a pound or two between Thanksgiving and New Year’s — and ...

White Christmas” is one of the world’s best-selling tunes and continues to be in rotation more than eight decades later ...

The change has been driven by technology. In the pre-streaming era, consumers would play Christmas music through CDs and ...

These are four of the best country Christmas songs that were ever released, which all happened to have come out in the 1990s.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — “with the kids jingle belling and everyone telling you be of good cheer,” as the late Andy Williams so memorably sang on a seasonal favorite first recorded ...

Historically, sexy Christmas songs represented a particularly unhinged subgenre of holiday music, anchored by cringe classics like “Santa Baby” and the one where the kid catches his parents making out ...